| Outsourcing of American Law |
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| With Keynote Address by Justice Antonin Scalia |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
12:00 PM
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
5:30 PM
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Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE WEB CAST VIDEO IS IN TWO PARTS. THE SECOND HALF OF THE VIDEO IS AVAILABLE BY CLICKING ON THE RELATED LINKS SECTION TITLED VIDEO PART TWO.
In the past year, there has been serious debate over the role that international and foreign law should play in American judicial decision-making. Are there circumstances under which international and foreign law can trump the Constitution? How do we define sovereignty in the age of the war on terrorism? Is U.S. reliance on international law a double-edged sword?
In order to understand recent developments in the relationship between international, foreign, and domestic law and the implications of this debate for American citizens in general, AEI will host a conference on the outsourcing of American law. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will deliver the keynote speech and distinguished speakers will address the subjects of customary international law in American judicial decision-making after Sosa v. Alvarez Machain, international law and laws of war, and the role of foreign law in Supreme Court adjudication. Speakers will include AEI visiting scholar John Yoo; Brookings Institution senior fellow Stuart Taylor; senior vice president of the Center for American Progress Morton Halperin; professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law Kenneth Anderson; Hofstra University professor of law Julian Ku; and Hoover Institution senior fellow and George Mason University law professor Peter Berkowitz. |
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11:45 a.m. |
Registration and Lunch |
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Opening Remarks: |
Jack Goldsmith, AEI, Harvard Law School |
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12:10 |
Panel I: Looking Abroad for Law? Customary International Law and the Alien Tort Statute |
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Panelists: |
William Dodge, University of California, Hastings College of the Law |
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Julian Ku, Hofstra University School of Law |
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David Moore, University of Kentucky College of Law |
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Beth Stephens, Rutgers School of Law |
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Moderator: |
Jack Goldsmith, AEI, Harvard Law School |
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1:35 |
Panel II: Law and War: The War on Terrorism and International Law
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Panelists: |
Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American
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Morton Halperin, Open Society Institute, Center for American Progress |
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John Hutson, Franklin Pierce Law Center, U.S. Navy |
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Andrew McCarthy, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
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Moderator: |
John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law |
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2:50 |
Break |
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3:00 |
Keynote Address |
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Introduction: |
Christopher DeMuth, AEI |
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Speaker: |
Justice Antonin Scalia |
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4:00 |
Panel III: Outsourcing Constitutional Law? International and Foreign Law and the U.S. Supreme Court |
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Panelists: |
Peter Berkowitz, George Mason University Law School, Hoover Institution |
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Thomas Goldstein, Goldstein and Howe, P.C. |
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Stuart Taylor, National Journal, Newsweek, Brookings Institution |
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John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law |
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Moderator: |
Danielle Pletka, AEI |
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Closing Remarks: |
John Yoo, AEI, UC-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law | |
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More Information
Suzanne Gershowitz
American Enterprise Institue
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5926
Fax: 202-862-7163
E-mail: SGershowitz@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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